Bug#395230: installation-reports: [sparc64] ultra10 creator 3d install failed

2006-10-26 Thread Blars Blarson
On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 09:57:10PM -0700, Jurij Smakov wrote: Please try booting with 'video=atyfb:off' boot parameter. Thanks, that worked. Install is proceeding. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html

Bug#395230: installation-reports: [sparc64] ultra10 creator 3d install failed

2006-10-25 Thread Blars Blarson
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory ANSI_X3.4-1968) -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html With Microsoft, failure is not an option. It is a standard feature. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Debian Installer team monthly meeting minutes (20060429 meeting)

2006-05-02 Thread Blars Blarson
. Jurij Smakov is working on this. 2.6 still crashes on busy sparc64 smp systems, as of a 2.6.17 release candidate. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html With Microsoft, failure is not an option. It is a standard feature

Bug#358532: sparc64 and sparc32

2006-04-14 Thread Blars Blarson
retitle 358532 Please make sure that sbus modules make it to initrd on sparc thanks This report was about a 64 bit sparc system (with sbus). Please don't pretend it only affects sparc32. It would also affect sparc32, but I am no longer trying to support sparc32. -- Blars Blarson

Bug#358532: installation-reports: sparc ultra 1 reboot fails

2006-03-22 Thread Blars Blarson
Package: installation-reports Version: etch beta2 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Boot method: cd Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/etch_di_beta2/sparc/jigdo-cd/debian-testing-sparc-binary-1.jigdo Date: 2006-03-22 Machine: Sun ultra 1 Processor:

Bug#286743: sparcstation 20 install failure -- sid businesscard 20041221

2004-12-21 Thread Blars Blarson
:[ ] Install boot loader:[ ] Reboot: [ ] Comments/Problems: Only one penguin cramfs: wrong magic Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 00:00 -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html

Bug#286467: sparcstation lx install 20041218 image -- kernel oops at end

2004-12-20 Thread Blars Blarson
it. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html With Microsoft, failure is not an option. It is a standard feature. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#285741: sparcstation lx install sid d-i 20041210

2004-12-15 Thread Blars Blarson
the network. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html With Microsoft, failure is not an option. It is a standard feature. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: partman problems (sparc and elsewhere)

2004-12-04 Thread Blars Blarson
When trying to create a logical volume, I get the error: Striped: Required device-mapper target(s) not in your kernel -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html With Microsoft, failure is not an option. It is a standard

Re: partman problems (sparc and elsewhere)

2004-12-04 Thread Blars Blarson
group, but not logical volumes. When I deleted the physical volumes and created ext3 partitions, I wound up with what was showing as a bunch of physical volumes. (Maybe part of the problem was I was trying to use the entire disk as a physical volume, which overwrote the disk label.) -- Blars

Re: partman problems (sparc and elsewhere)

2004-11-26 Thread Blars Blarson
On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 06:04:28PM -0800, Joshua Kwan wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Blars Blarson wrote: | After doing successful installs using rc2 on a stack of sparc systems | (ultra1, ultra1e, ultra2, ultra2) I started playing with raid and lvm | installs

partman problems (sparc and elsewhere)

2004-11-25 Thread Blars Blarson
crazier. This isn't a hard to reproduce bug, pretty much the only case that works is a simple single-disk install with ext3 partitons. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html With Microsoft, failure is not an option

Re: Bug#243120: boot failure on sparc32 (Ultra1)

2004-10-26 Thread Blars Blarson
the disabling code. :-) (Search the archives of the appropriate usenet newsgroups, I don't remember the exact tweek.) -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html With Microsoft, failure is not an option. It is a standard feature

sparc ultra-30 successful install sid daily 2004-10-23

2004-10-24 Thread Blars Blarson
Just a quick note to say I tried a new sid daily on my sun ultra-30 and the install went fine, with only a few minor glitches which have already been reported/discussed and should not delay sarge. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Bug#278147: kernel-image-2.4.27-1-sparc32: sparc32 cannot mount cdrom in d-i

2004-10-24 Thread Blars Blarson
Package: kernel-image-2.4.27-1-sparc32 Version: d-i sid daily 2004-10-23 Severity: grave Tags: d-i Justification: renders package unusable Attempting an install from a sid daily d-i disk 2004-10-23 on a sparcstation LX, the cdrom cannot be mounted. Using the busybox shell gives a kermel NULL

Bug#275784: sparc32 vmlinuz mis-labelled sparc64 in d-i pre-rc2 boot.img

2004-10-10 Thread Blars Blarson
is distributed on CD or DVD.) -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html With Microsoft, failure is not an option. It is a standard feature. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Bug#275620: netboot hang sparc32

2004-10-09 Thread Blars Blarson
WAS fixed previously.) Try booting with the option debian-installer/framebuffer=false . -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html With Microsoft, failure is not an option. It is a standard feature. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Bug#275701: installation-reports: [sparc] tries to start bterm on inappropriate hardware

2004-10-09 Thread Blars Blarson
Package: installation-reports Version: prerc2 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable On my sparc ultra-30, debian-installer once more is trying to start bterm on a creator 3d framebuffer where it will not work. Using debian-installer/framebuffer=false as a silo command line

Re: Bug#275620: netboot hang sparc32

2004-10-09 Thread Blars Blarson
reject) but not of packages that cannot be built by standard Debian tools. Either rootskel needs to be fixed not to depend on an unavailable version of glibc, or binutils needs to be fixed. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org

Bug#275701: installation-reports: [sparc] tries to start bterm on inappropriate hardware

2004-10-09 Thread Blars Blarson
hardware does use PC style framebuffers, so bterm would be usable on them.) The fix was to not attempt using bterm where it would not work. I don't know where the change was made, but rootskel seems likely. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Bug#275620: netboot hang sparc32

2004-10-09 Thread Blars Blarson
holding up the build of d-i rc2. (rootskel depends on glibc which does not build due to a binutils bug.) -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html With Microsoft, failure is not an option. It is a standard feature

Bug#273308: Acknowledgement (install-reports: [sparc32] sr_mod fails to load from sid netboot cd)

2004-09-25 Thread Blars Blarson
kernel is also initrd based, where the 2.4.26 one wasn't, so the silo configuration needed also differs. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html With Microsoft, failure is not an option. It is a standard feature

Re: building sparc32 images on sparc64

2004-09-13 Thread Blars Blarson
. sparc32 worked first. I think it may be possible to build on a sparc32 system, but who wants to wait for one to do it? -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html With Microsoft, failure is not an option. It is a standard

Re: Bug#260225: Sarge installer not recognising partition table for disk larger than 137GB

2004-08-18 Thread Blars Blarson
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't know if this is relevant, but some IDE controllers only recognize the first 128 GB(binary) = 137*10^9 bytes. I've heard of one that only supportds dma on the smaller disks, and non-dma mode will work with larger disks. -- Blars

Re: Bug#259914: Bug#257260: NO Detect CD with sarge-sparc-netinst.iso on SUN Ultra60

2004-08-13 Thread Blars Blarson
modprobe -v sr_mod This appears to be the busybox sparc64 modload problem that was fixed back in May in unstable but the fix did not propigate to sarge for a long time due to other changes. This bug should probably be closed with a not to try rc1. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Bug#264585: (Sparc rc1 cdrom installation on Ultra 5)

2004-08-09 Thread Blars Blarson
not support disks more than 130gB. Early solaris versions only supported up to 32gB, if you have an older openboot it may have problems booting past 32gB. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html With Microsoft, failure

Re: UTF-8 default

2004-07-23 Thread Blars Blarson
and probably other applications. This is probably bug 246398 in xterm. This bug is not related to d-i, you'll get it on upgraded systems that lack utf8 locales as well. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html

Bug#260023: sparc ultra 30 install success -- silo problem seems fixed

2004-07-17 Thread Blars Blarson
: [O ] [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Comments/Problems: Silo 1.4.8 seems to have fixed the initrd loading problem -- this is the exact configuration that had the problem last week. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: debian-installer on sparc32

2004-07-14 Thread Blars Blarson
this is the slot closest to the disk drives.) -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html With Microsoft, failure is not an option. It is a standard feature. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Bug#258916: sparc ultra-30 install success with sid daily

2004-07-12 Thread Blars Blarson
: [O ] [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Comments/Problems: First successful sarge install on the ultra 30. More memory than previous tries. dhcp failed fist time as usual. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#258919: ultra30 sid d-i daily failure

2004-07-12 Thread Blars Blarson
. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html With Microsoft, failure is not an option. It is a standard feature. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#259104: languagechooser: ragged right margin on undisplayable languages

2004-07-12 Thread Blars Blarson
Package: languagechooser Version: N/A; reported 2004-07-12 Severity: minor Tags: d-i The languagechooser screen on a sparc ultra30 has a ragged right margin with the | on the right side indented on asian languages. Since bterm does not work and is disabled on this hardware, only languages using

silo 1.4.6 still has initrd loading problem (sparc64)

2004-06-30 Thread Blars Blarson
Silo 1.4.6 does not solve the initrd loading problem. (The changelog entry was unclear if it should or not.) The d-i image at http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sid_d-i/sparc/20040629/sarge-sparc-netinst.iso gets in a repeating segmentation fault. -- Blars Blarson

sparc sid dailys not building...

2004-06-25 Thread Blars Blarson
The latest daily image avilable at http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sid_d-i/sparc/ is for 20040619. I was hoping to test if the new silo fixed the initrd problem on some sparc64 systems, but the 20040619 image has the old silo. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Bug#255012: debian-installer: d-i tc1 still has broken busybox, unusable on all sparc machines made last 5 years

2004-06-24 Thread Blars Blarson
memory layout of the machine in question -- the initrd was sometimes located where silo couldn't find it.) I need to test this. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html With Microsoft, failure is not an option

Bug#255012: debian-installer: d-i tc1 still has broken busybox, unusable on all sparc machines made last 5 years

2004-06-19 Thread Blars Blarson
candidate than one that may be broken. :-( The busybox-cvs-udeb version with the fix is in sarge for i386. Can it be put there for sparc now? -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html With Microsoft, failure is not an option

Re: Bug#255012: debian-installer: d-i tc1 still has broken busybox, unusable on all sparc machines made last 5 years

2004-06-19 Thread Blars Blarson
on sparc. Three reorginizations in code I was trying to work on in two weeks showed me that it would take someone with a lot more time available just to stay current without actually fixing any bugs. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Bug#255012: debian-installer: d-i tc1 still has broken busybox, unusable on all sparc machines made last 5 years

2004-06-18 Thread Blars Blarson
Package: debian-installer Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable d-i tc1 downloaded from http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/sparc/tc1/sarge-sparc-netinst.iso still has the old broken busybox, when the fixed one has been in sid for several weeks. This broken

Bug#255012: debian-installer: d-i tc1 still has broken busybox, unusable on all sparc machines made last 5 years

2004-06-18 Thread Blars Blarson
it sarge however. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html With Microsoft, failure is not an option. It is a standard feature. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#255012: debian-installer: d-i tc1 still has broken busybox, unusable on all sparc machines made last 5 years

2004-06-18 Thread Blars Blarson
this. packages.qa.debian.org shows that the known-broken version is still in sarge. busybox-cvs-udeb needs to be at least 20040507. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html With Microsoft, failure is not an option

Re: ide-cd error in d-i for 2.4.26-sparc64 kernel (sarge-sparc-businesscard / 20040603)

2004-06-07 Thread Blars Blarson
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 03:14:23PM +0200, Wiktor Wandachowicz wrote: I am unable to load ide-cd.o module for 2.4.26-sparc64 kernel. It's a known problem. busybox can't handle sparc64 module. Fixed in the sid version. -- Blars Blarson

Re: Bug#248590: sparcstation lx beta 4 install (mostly ok)

2004-05-14 Thread Blars Blarson
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Needed to add ramdisk_size=3D8192 to command line. Have you ben able to check if this problem is fixed in the daily builds? This problem does not happen with the 2004-05-11 daily. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#249081: sparcstation 20 d-i daily 2004-05-11 success

2004-05-14 Thread Blars Blarson
] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Comments/Problems: System hung after the normal Unimplemented system call messages. Booting with debian-installer/framebuffer=false fixed that. DHCP failed first time as usual. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#248590: sparcstation lx beta 4 install (mostly ok)

2004-05-13 Thread Blars Blarson
01:16:08 2004 -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html With Microsoft, failure is not an option. It is a standard feature. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#248954: sparc64 sid daily success!

2004-05-13 Thread Blars Blarson
on sparc64 for me. This fixed busybox-cvs definatly needs to be in d-i beta5. (The sarge dailys are still broken.) -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html With Microsoft, failure is not an option. It is a standard

Bug#248956: sparc64 second disk install, mostly ok

2004-05-13 Thread Blars Blarson
/%d0, tty overwrite. I was forced to reboot the system, after which it acted normally. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html With Microsoft, failure is not an option. It is a standard feature. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Bug#248590: sparcstation lx beta 4 install (mostly ok)

2004-05-12 Thread Blars Blarson
inittab needs to be fixed for serial consoles. The inittab after install is ok however, I no longer need to manually patch it to get a usable system. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html With Microsoft, failure

Re: sparc beta 4 errata updates needed

2004-05-10 Thread Blars Blarson
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Blars Blarson wrote: Would someone please update the beta 4 errata page: =20 * sparc initrd too large beta 4 initrd is larger than the compiled in ramdisk size, to work arou= nd this problem use linux ramdisk_size=3D8192 at the silo

Re: Bug#247811: sparc beta 4 install failures

2004-05-08 Thread Blars Blarson
) that make this a useless release for all sun systems manufactured in the last 5 years. At a minimum, we should lable beta 4 as totally useless for sparc64 systems on the errata page and perhaps save some testers time. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED

sparc beta 4 errata updates needed

2004-05-08 Thread Blars Blarson
problems with this release have workarounds, and some only affect some systems. it is beleived that beta 4 cannot be used to install on any sparc64 (aka sun4u) system. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html With Microsoft

Bug#247993: SparcClassic installation report

2004-05-08 Thread Blars Blarson
ramdisk_size=8192 at the silo prompt. This needs to be added to the beta 4 errata. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html With Microsoft, failure is not an option. It is a standard feature. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#247757: partman workaround needed

2004-05-08 Thread Blars Blarson
such partitons. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html With Microsoft, failure is not an option. It is a standard feature. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Bug#247811: sparc beta 4 install failures

2004-05-07 Thread Blars Blarson
failed, apparently it is trying to use the known broken busybox modprobe. Same problem as has been reported before. The businesscard image is now trying to load modules off of the cdrom. This seems to be a new problem. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#240410: debian-installer: downloads and unpacks useless kernel image [sparc]

2004-03-27 Thread Blars Blarson
On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 08:33:51AM -0800, Matt Kraai wrote: On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 10:46:32PM -0800, Blars Blarson wrote: When using the beta-3 netboot mini-iso, debian-installer downloads and unpacks both the sparc32 and sparc64 kernels. Since only one of the two will be usable

Bug#240577: sun ultra30 serial console beta 3 fails

2004-03-27 Thread Blars Blarson
This is the same cdrom used to install on the Ultra 2. This is a retry with a serial console, that has the same error as with the local console. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html With Microsoft, failure is not an option

Bug#240410: debian-installer: downloads and unpacks useless kernel image [sparc]

2004-03-26 Thread Blars Blarson
Package: debian-installer Severity: normal When using the beta-3 netboot mini-iso, debian-installer downloads and unpacks both the sparc32 and sparc64 kernels. Since only one of the two will be usable on the system, this is a waste of both network useage and memory. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#239300: partman log

2004-03-26 Thread Blars Blarson
: Opening outfifo parted_server: OUT: OK parted_server: No partitions parted_server: OUT: parted_server: Closing infifo and outfifo parted_server: main_loop: iteration 52 parted_server: Opening infifo /bin/partman: IN: QUIT parted_server: Read command: QUIT parted_server: Quiting -- Blars Blarson

Bug#240411: partman: go back continues instead

2004-03-26 Thread Blars Blarson
Package: partman Version: beta3 netinstall of testing -- sparc 32 Severity: normal On the silly question where Manually configure partitions is the only choice, the go back option proceeds to disk partitioning rather than returning to the d-i menu. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#239224: sparc ultra 2 tgx4 beta 3 install fail

2004-03-21 Thread Blars Blarson
does not restore the display. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html With Microsoft, failure is not an option. It is a standard feature. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Bug#239300: sun sparcstation lx partition problem

2004-03-21 Thread Blars Blarson
. (shows up as host1/bus0/target1) The partitoner writes the new lables, but the newly-created unallocated space does not show up so I cannot partition the drive. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html With Microsoft

Bug#239012: sun ultra 2 beta 3 install

2004-03-20 Thread Blars Blarson
there were a few glitches, this was my first successfull use of debian-installer on sparc. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html With Microsoft, failure is not an option. It is a standard feature. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Bug#239012: sun ultra 2 beta 3 install

2004-03-20 Thread Blars Blarson
On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 09:28:47AM -0500, Jeff Bailey wrote: On Sat, 2004-03-20 at 03:57, Blars Blarson wrote: Sparcs had problems negociating 100Mbs full with some early ethernet switches, I wonder if the network problem is related. Loading sr_mod failed. This needs to be fixed so we can do

Bug#239136: sun ultra 30 beta 3 boot failure

2004-03-20 Thread Blars Blarson
to install on the Ultra 2. Various boot options (devfs=mount, framebuffer=false, ramdisk_size=16384) in various combinations have not changed this. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html With Microsoft, failure

Bug#239154: sparc ultra 2 beta 3 failure

2004-03-20 Thread Blars Blarson
than serial console. Puts red garbage on upper half of screen than loops displaying Segmentation fault stairsteping on the screen. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html With Microsoft, failure is not an option

Re: Bug#237075: Bug not related to Sparc64... Maybe related to Creator?

2004-03-16 Thread Blars Blarson
a serial console by disconnecting the keyboard and using serial port a. (Default 9600 baud.) -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html With Microsoft, failure is not an option. It is a standard feature

Re: Default partition table type for non i386?

2004-03-03 Thread Blars Blarson
and sparc64 use sun. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html With Microsoft, failure is not an option. It is a standard feature. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#234860: linux-kernel-di: need cdrom modules in udeb for sparc64

2004-02-26 Thread Blars Blarson
Package: linux-kernel-di Version: 0.37 Severity: important The 2.4.24-sparc64 kernel does not include sr_mod and the idecd module. (wishlist bug 233834) These need to be packaged as udebs for cdrom installs on sparc64. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers

Re: [PATCH] small patch to fix cdrom build for sparc

2004-02-12 Thread Blars Blarson
pretty sure the code won't need to be reworked again. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html With Microsoft, failure is not an option. It is a standard feature. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: help with modulils for sparc64 debian-installer

2004-02-11 Thread Blars Blarson
around this problem by disabling the busybox versions, but they still don't work. A secondary reason was to get rid of the warning messages when installing the real utilities in the image. I'm not particularly woried about size at this time. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: help with modulils for sparc64 debian-installer

2004-02-09 Thread Blars Blarson
On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 06:35:21PM -0800, Blars Blarson wrote: I'm trying to figure out why depmod, insmod, and modprobe are give the error that the sparc64 kernel modules are not for this architecture on my latest d-i boot cds. I'm using the ones in the modutils-full udeb, uname -m reports

conditional for pkg-list, sparc needs two cdrom-initrd

2004-02-08 Thread Blars Blarson
, or to have pkg-list search for kernel-version specific files. Does this sound reasoable, is there a better way of doing this, or should I implement one of the alternatives? -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html

Re: conditional for pkg-list, sparc needs two cdrom-initrd

2004-02-08 Thread Blars Blarson
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: --=-pLWLHV+/Tgl1EM3GVs6Y Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 2004-02-08 at 11:57, Blars Blarson wrote: For sparc, I've found I need to build two separate cd-initrd.gz's: one for sun4cdm (sparc32

help with modulils for sparc64 debian-installer

2004-02-08 Thread Blars Blarson
is known not to work for sparc64.) I tried setting the enviornment UNAME_MACHINE to sparc64 and that didn't help. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html With Microsoft, failure is not an option. It is a standard feature

Bug#231606: busybox-cvs-udeb: busybox depmod and insmod fail on sparc64

2004-02-07 Thread Blars Blarson
Package: busybox-cvs-udeb Severity: important Tags: sid busybox insmod and depmod appear not to understand sparc64 and complain about wrong architecture when used on a sparc64 box. They need to detect sparc64 (uname -m) and switch elf formats supported. ~ # insmod sr_mod Using

Bug#231618: busybox-cvs-udeb: please don't build modutils for sparc

2004-02-07 Thread Blars Blarson
Package: busybox-cvs-udeb Severity: wishlist Tags: sid d-i Since busybox does not build usable modutils (depmod, insmod) on sparc, (see bug 231606) please diable building them. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable')

upgading sparc d-i bugs to release-critical

2004-02-07 Thread Blars Blarson
It's about time that the bugs that need to be fixed for sparc d-i to work to be upgraded to release-critical. The beta-2 crunch seems to have calmed down, and I'm aproaching being able to build a working d-i cd with local fixes and hacks around these bugs. The first six bugs in the list below

Re: upgading sparc d-i bugs to release-critical

2004-02-07 Thread Blars Blarson
On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 12:24:32AM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: [Blars Blarson] Unless someone convinces me otherwise, I'll upgrade them to grave in two days. You seem to assume that raising the priority will make someone fix the bug faster. I believe this assumption is wrong

Bug#231514: linux-kernel-di: prefix is the wrong word for -di

2004-02-06 Thread Blars Blarson
Package: linux-kernel-di Version: 0.29 Severity: minor Tags: sid patch Rather than calling -di a postfix, I reworded the sentence. --- README~ 2003-10-29 08:21:01.0 -0800 +++ README 2004-02-06 19:38:44.0 -0800 @@ -3,12 +3,13 @@ the udebs. It also generates one udeb

Bug#231222: debian-installer: assumes color ansi serial console

2004-02-05 Thread Blars Blarson
Package: debian-installer Severity: normal Tags: sarge sid d-i debian-installer does not prompt for terminal type when installing from a serial console, and apparently assumes an 80x24 color ansi termianl. While only the size is incorrect in the cases I have tested, (it looks a bit stupid to

Re: Installer builds for non x86 archs. - Was Re: Daily builds may go away

2004-02-05 Thread Blars Blarson
a look at it. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html With Microsoft, failure is not an option. It is a standard feature. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#231219: kbd-chooser: question should be skiped when using serial console

2004-02-04 Thread Blars Blarson
Package: kbd-chooser Severity: normal Tags: d-i When installing from a serial console, the keyboard chooser question makes no sence. Combind with the bug in the sun keymaps that make no choice usable, this is irritating in that d-i keeps trying to ask this useless question over and over. --

debian-installer bugs that need to be fixed for sparc

2004-01-19 Thread Blars Blarson
Here is my current list of bugs that need to be fixed for debian-installer to be usable for sparc. If I've overlooked any, please let me know. Most have patches in the BTS, one is fixed in current cvs. After d-i beta 2 has settled down a bit more, I think they should be raised to

Re: Problems building d-i on sparc: mklibs failed

2004-01-16 Thread Blars Blarson
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: I just tried to build d-i on sparc. You'll need to patch mklibs. My patch is in bug 227291. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html With Microsoft, failure is not an option

Re: sparc boot progress -- or at least a different error

2004-01-16 Thread Blars Blarson
to me arives. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html With Microsoft, failure is not an option. It is a standard feature. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Problems building d-i on sparc: mklibs failed

2004-01-16 Thread Blars Blarson
into it, debian-cd will need some minor tweeks to build bootable sparc CDs. When I get it running, I'll submit appropriate bugs. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html With Microsoft, failure is not an option. It is a standard

Re: sparc boot progress -- or at least a different error

2004-01-12 Thread Blars Blarson
far, it's only been tested on a sparcstation LX (sun4m). -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html With Microsoft, failure is not an option. It is a standard feature. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#227291: mklibs: needs to handle symbols starting with . for sparc

2004-01-12 Thread Blars Blarson
Package: mklibs Version: 0.1.14 Severity: important Tags: patch d-i (This is also part of bug 220640, but I'm separting it out to make it a single-issue bug on the approprate package. Only important for now until sparc d-i gets held up by it.) With the distributed mklibs, debian installer gives

sparc boot progress -- or at least a different error

2004-01-11 Thread Blars Blarson
together. I think it should start being unjumbled as: /bin/sh: relocation error in symbol . /bin/sh: it[1] GLIBC So at this point I'm blaming d-i for the problem. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html With Microsoft

Re: sparc boot progress -- or at least a different error

2004-01-11 Thread Blars Blarson
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 07:04:42AM -0800, Blars Blarson wrote: /bin/sh: relocation error: /bin/ishn: isytmb[ol1 .]ur:em , Uvenrsiiomn pGLlIBeC_m2.e0 nnott ededfi neSd PinA fRilCe lisbcy.sso.t6 ewimth lcinak ltilme r1ef8er8ence Further testing (fix /dev in tmp/cdrom/tree, chroot

Re: sparc boot progress -- or at least a different error

2004-01-11 Thread Blars Blarson
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I tried to use netboot method, and I can't get my sparc to use initrd. Right now I'm working on cdrom booting, and havn't tried netboot. Try using root=0100 in your silo.conf. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED

sparc d-i boot error

2003-12-31 Thread Blars Blarson
: l6: f5f94000 l7: f01fb1c0 i0: f025fd7c i1: f01d9ed8 i2: i3: 1000 i4: i5: fp: f5f95af0 i7: f0113b28 Caller[f0113b28] Caller[f0119884] [further errors...] -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org

Re: building d-i for sparc

2003-12-30 Thread Blars Blarson
, this is much simplier than I thought. Obviously, no useful install can be done with no silo-installer. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html With Microsoft, failure is not an option. It is a standard feature

Bug#225389: sparc: circular dependacy in netboot image

2003-12-29 Thread Blars Blarson
Package: debian-installer Version: cvs 27 Dec 2003 Severity: normal After doing a make clean, netboot image is no longer buildable: Script started on Mon Dec 29 05:48:48 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/inst/debian-installer/build$ make image TYPE=netboot Makefile:439: warning: overriding commands for

building d-i for sparc

2003-12-29 Thread Blars Blarson
After not doing anything on it for six weeks, I'm again trying to get debian-installer working on sparc. First iritation was needing to rebuild python2.3, as it's a dependancy of a build-dendancy. (Apparently the sparc autobuilder is still down.) That took 14 hours to compile. I also had to

Re: debian-installer status report

2003-12-15 Thread Blars Blarson
on d-i, I consider him the expert we should be helping. Why don't we do the coordination of work and sparc-specific issues on the debian-sparc mailing list where it would be easier to find? (Mail-followup-to set there.) -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Default bootloader

2003-11-26 Thread Blars Blarson
system. (Behind my woody system acting as a firewall, dhcp would be the correct choice.) Some DSL providers use dhcp without pppoe. There are also pppoa connetions, some of which requiere non-free firmware... -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#219928: reassigning to brltty

2003-11-13 Thread Blars Blarson
unmerge 219928 reassign 219928 brltty tags 219928 - unreproducible tags 219928 - help thanks brltty is the only udeb refering to timeout_yet, so the problem is there. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html

Bug#220208: debian-installer-demo: missing build-depends on genromfs

2003-11-11 Thread Blars Blarson
Package: debian-installer Severity: normal After attempting a workaround for bug 219928 building debian-installer for sparc, (removing all referces to brltty) I find that the genromfs command is executed but there is no build-dependancy on the genromfs package. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#219928: debian-installer: build failures on sparc

2003-11-10 Thread Blars Blarson
Package: debian-installer Version: 20031106.1 Severity: normal I've run into the same problems building debian-installer for sparc with both the current sid version debian-installer-20031106.1 and a cvs checkout (about 2003-11-10 07:00 UTC) running fakeroot make image: First, it tries to move

debian-installer for sparc

2003-11-02 Thread Blars Blarson
a sparcstation LX that I can dedicate to the project, and have access to other sparc hardware that I may be able to test on. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html With Microsoft, failure is not an option. It is a standard

  1   2   >